Bob Perelman Reading / October 18, 2006
Event Report
The poet Bob Perelman read to a capacity audience of more than one hundred people in an NWS event co-sponsored by the Honors College on Wednesday afternoon, October 18, 2006. Perelman read exclusively from his new book, IFLIFE, published by the New York-based Roof Books. He opened his set with “Against Shock and Awe,” a poem that first appeared on the Op-Ed pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer in February 2003. He then read “The Revenge of the Bathwater” (to the audible amusement of the audience), “The Dream of the Bed,” and several other short poems, before turning to a substantial excerpt from the book’s title sequence, “Iflife.” He closed the set with another extended poem, “Tank Top.” About 35 people remained for a lively question-and-answer period afterward.
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